Nikki Khanna
Author of Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism
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Nikki Khanna is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Vermont and author of Biracial in America: Forming and Performing Racial Identity.
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This fascinating, well written, and well referenced scholarly book is an anthology of colorism. The contibutors are women of Asian descent living in the U.S. who have both a scholarly interest in and a lived experience of being judged by the color of their skin. I am familiar with colorism in India, and I learned a lot from this book about similar experiences with prejudice and dissatisfaction in China, Japan, the Philippines, and Cambodia. I liked most the contributions of multiracial women--which probably means I should read the editor's earlier work on being biracial!--as well as a singular essay by an Indian woman with albinism. These essays feel authentic and reflective, and they help build understanding. Recommended for all readers.… (more)